Free Screenplays - 2015

Here we go again: the annual rush of free screenplays available on line (for an unpredictable length of time.) Grab your copies today.

99 Homes
Beasts of No Nation
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Carol
Concussion
Danny Collins
Ex Machina
Far From the Madding Crowd
Grandma
I Smile Back
I’ll See You In My Dreams
Infinitely Polar Bear
Inside Out
Learning to Drive
Legend
Macbeth
Man Up
Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
Minions
Mississippi Grind
Mistress America
Pawn Sacrifice
Remember
Room
Slow West
Spotlight
Steve Jobs
Straight Outta Compton
Suffragette
Testament of Youth
The Big Short
The Danish Girl
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The End of the Tour
The Hateful Eight
The Keeping Room
The Lady in the Van
The Son of Saul
Trainwreck
Trumbo
Truth
While We’re Young
Woman in Gold
Youth

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2011    2012    2013    2014

Free Screenplays - 2014

Here we are again, at the start of the Awards Season. The studios have begun releasing copies of screenplays—For Your Consideration.
    The process will continue in dribs and drabs well into December. I'll update this post as more details come to hand. Collect your copy of each straight away, as screenplays have been known to disappear from their original sites without notice.

A Most Violent Year
Belle
Big Eyes
Birdman
Boyhood
Calvary
Dear White People
Foxcatcher
Get On Up
Gone Girl
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Into the Woods
Kill the Messenger
Leviathan
Locke
Love is Strange
Mr. Turner
Nightcrawler
St. Vincent
Still Alice
The BoxTrolls
The Fault In Our Stars
The Gambler
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash
Wild
Wild Tales

First posted:  13 November 2014

Free Screenplays - 2013

It's November and the studios have begun the process whereby they release copies of screenplays ahead of the Awards Season - For Your Consideration.

This will continue in dribs and drabs well into December, and I'll update this post as more details come to hand. Collect your copy of each straight away, as screenplays have been known to disappear from their original sites without notice.

12 Years a Slave
42
All Is Lost
August: Osage County
Before Midnight
Dallas Buyers Club
Despicable Me 2
Enough Said
Frozen
Fruitvale Station
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Kill Your Darlings
Labor Day
Lee Daniel's The Butler
Lone Survivor
Monsters University
Mud
Nebraska
One Chance
Philomena
Prisoners
Rush
Saving Mr. Banks
Short Term 12
Smashed
Spring Breakers
The Armstrong Lie
The Bling Ring
The Croods
The Fifth Estate
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
The Past
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Spectacular Now
The Way Way Back
The Wolf of Wall Street
Wadjda

First posted:  4 November 2013

Free Screenplays - 2012

It's that time of the year again. The Melbourne Cup is over, so now we start the long slow climb toward the Academy Awards on February 24. Good luck, Seth McFarlane!

As part of the process, the studios are making copies of screenplays available to members of the Academy ('for your consideration'), except the rest of us get to download them legally as well. The catch is that they can disappear from the studio web pages at any time. If you go back and check the list for last year, you'll see that of the 26 on offer, 9 have disappeared. During the last twelve months, my favorite screenplay site, myPDFscripts, closed down, following repeated legal threats by studios.

The lesson is, Make the hay while the sun, she shines. And while we are in agricultural reference mode, here is the crop of available screenplays for 2012.

• Amour
• Argo
• Anna Karenina
• Arbitrage
• Beasts of the Southern Wild 
• Celeste and Jesse Forever
• Django Unchained
• Flight
• Frankenweenie
• Hitchcock
• Hyde Park on Hudson
• Les Miserables
• Lincoln
• Life of Pi
• Looper
• Middle of Nowhere
• Moonrise Kingdom
• ParaNorman
• Promised Land
• Quartet
• Rust and Bone
• Smashed 
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Ted
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• The Lorax
• The Master
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• The Sessions 
• The Silver Linings Playbook
• This is 40
• Wreck-It-Ralph

First posted:  12 November 2012

Free Screenplays - 2011

Lately I've been involved in a number of conversations about locating copies of produced screenplays. Some people watch a film on DVD, think "I'd like to read the script behind that," and expect to be able to find it on-line. Sometimes you can. Most of the time you can't. 

Here's the good news. 'Tis the season for studios to place nice, crisp, clean copies of their (they hope) Oscar-worthy screenplays on their websites. But be warned: the season doesn't last long. They will soon vanish from the website and become very hard to find. (Try tracking down a copy of the screenplay for The African Queen on-line. It won Best Screenplay in 1952, and it used to be available, but...) 

In Adelaide, it's cherry-picking time. In the world of Hollywood movies, it's screenplay-picking time. Some of those seasonally-available... today (and I emphasise today): 

Anonymous
Artist, The
Beginners
Bridesmaids
Cars 2
Coriolanus
Debt, The
Descendants, The
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Hanna
The Help
Ides of March, The
Iron Lady, The
Jane Eyre
Machine Gun Preacher
Margaret
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Moneyball
My Week With Marilyn
Pariah
Shame
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
War Horse
Warrior
Win Win

What? You haven't seen the movies and aren't sure you'll like them? Tough toenails, Toots!  He who hesitates is lost. Get 'em while they're hot!  If they turn out to be crap, you can always delete them later.  You wanna be a screenwriter, don't you?  Among other things, that means reading current screenplays.  What are you waiting for?

First posted:  5 December 2011

Free Screenplays - 2014 (30)

Here we are again, at the start of the Awards Season. The studios have begun releasing copies of screenplays—For Your Consideration.
    The process will continue in dribs and drabs well into December. I'll update this post as more details come to hand. Collect your copy of each straight away, as screenplays have been known to disappear from their original sites without notice.

A Most Violent Year
Belle
Big Eyes
Birdman
Boyhood
Calvary
Dear White People
Foxcatcher
Get On Up
Gone Girl
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Into the Woods
Kill the Messenger
Leviathan
Locke
Love is Strange
Mr. Turner
Nightcrawler
St. Vincent
Still Alice
The BoxTrolls
The Fault In Our Stars
The Gambler
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash
Wild
Wild Tales

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2011    2012    2013

Nicholl Fellowship winning screenplays

As you probably already know, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences administers the annual Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. They are the top of the pops when it comes to screenwriting competitions worldwide. 

Notable past winners include: Max Adams, Allison Anders, Doug Atchison, Richard Cray, Destin Daniel Cretton, Susannah Grant, Ehren Kruger, Andrew W. Marlowe, Mike Rich, Creighton Rothenberger and Bragi Schut. 
 
In an enlightened move, the Academy have now made available some of the winning screenplays:

Gabrielle Burton: The Imperial Waltz
John Ciarlo: Bend in the River
Destin Cretton: Short Term 12
Greg Dawless: One Hour Development
Jodi Johnson: Mama & Me
Ehren Kruger: Arlington Road
Daniel Lawrence: The Gaza Golem
Jason Micallef: Butter
Dawn O’Leary: Island of Brilliance

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Free Screenplays - 2013

It's November and the studios have begun the process whereby they release copies of screenplays ahead of the Awards Season - For Your Consideration.

This will continue in dribs and drabs well into December, and I'll update this post as more details come to hand. Collect your copy of each straight away, as screenplays have been known to disappear from their original sites without notice.

12 Years a Slave
42
All Is Lost
August: Osage County
Before Midnight
Dallas Buyers Club
Despicable Me 2
Enough Said
Frozen
Fruitvale Station
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Kill Your Darlings
Labor Day
Lee Daniel's The Butler
Lone Survivor
Monsters University
Mud
Nebraska
One Chance
Philomena
Prisoners
Rush
Saving Mr. Banks
Short Term 12
Smashed
Spring Breakers
The Armstrong Lie
The Bling Ring
The Croods
The Fifth Estate
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
The Past
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Spectacular Now
The Way Way Back
The Wolf of Wall Street
Wadjda

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2011    2012    2014

Free Screenplays - 2012

It's that time of the year again. The Melbourne Cup is over, so now we start the long slow climb toward the Academy Awards on February 24. Good luck, Seth McFarlane!

As part of the process, the studios are making copies of screenplays available to members of the Academy ('for your consideration'), except the rest of us get to download them legally as well. The catch is that they can disappear from the studio web pages at any time. If you go back and check the list for last year, you'll see that of the 26 on offer, 9 have disappeared. During the last twelve months, my favorite screenplay site, myPDFscripts, closed down, following repeated legal threats by studios.

The lesson is, Make the hay while the sun, she shines. And while we are in agricultural reference mode, here is the crop of available screenplays for 2012.

• Amour
• Argo
• Anna Karenina
• Arbitrage
• Beasts of the Southern Wild 
• Celeste and Jesse Forever
• Django Unchained
• Flight
• Frankenweenie
• Hitchcock
• Hyde Park on Hudson
• Les Miserables
• Lincoln
• Life of Pi
• Looper
• Middle of Nowhere
• Moonrise Kingdom
• ParaNorman
• Promised Land
• Quartet
• Rust and Bone
• Smashed 
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Ted
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• The Lorax
• The Master
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• The Sessions 
• The Silver Linings Playbook
• This is 40
• Wreck-It-Ralph

________________________________________________________________________

2011    2013    2014

 

Free Screenplays - 2011

Lately I've been involved in a number of conversations about locating copies of produced screenplays. Some people watch a film on DVD, think "I'd like to read the script behind that," and expect to be able to find it on-line. Sometimes you can. Most of the time you can't. 

Here's the good news. 'Tis the season for studios to place nice, crisp, clean copies of their (they hope) Oscar-worthy screenplays on their websites. But be warned: the season doesn't last long. They will soon vanish from the website and become very hard to find. (Try tracking down a copy of the screenplay for The African Queen on-line. It won Best Screenplay in 1952, and it used to be available, but...) 

In Adelaide, it's cherry-picking time. In the world of Hollywood movies, it's screenplay-picking time. Some of those seasonally-available... today (and I emphasise today): 

Anonymous
Artist, The
Beginners
Bridesmaids
Cars 2
Coriolanus
Debt, The
Descendants, The
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Hanna
The Help
Ides of March, The
Iron Lady, The
Jane Eyre
Machine Gun Preacher
Margaret
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Moneyball
My Week With Marilyn
Pariah
Shame
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
War Horse
Warrior
Win Win

What? You haven't seen them and aren't sure you'll like them? Tough toenails, Toots!  He who hesitates is lost. Get 'em while they're hot!  If they turn out to be crap, you can always delete them later.  You wanna be a screenwriter, don't you?  Among other things, that means reading current screenplays.  What are you waiting for?

________________________________________________________________________

2012    2013    2014